Haven't done this in awhile, thought I'd check in and say "I'm still alive". How are you all doing today? Steam summer has been alright, not much I've seen that truely interests me, nothing has had that effect of "must get!" I did though get Commander Keen the classic 1990's platformer. Loved the game since I was little and for $3 why not.

It's that time of the year again when I go to this Hydroplane event I work at every year. I've been doing this with my family for about 10-12 years now. This time not only am I doing my normal job, I will also be doing some video coverage this year!

Very happy about this considering I am a videographer. =)

Hope the heat hasn't gotten to a lot of you, I'm use to it, but my A/C did die in my house. =/

Been waiting to get a new one ordered, and the process so far hasn't been plesent. The communcation is pretty crappy and while I've been without A/C for about 2 weeks, this has got to end. Tons of fans running through my house currently with a portable A/C blowing through my living room at least. It's almost near impossible to edit any videos while my studio stays pretty warm and I just don't want to work in there. That and video gaming is just meh. It's been me and my 3DS.

Alright take care guys! Happy Summer!

~Josh

Here is a rant made by my friend DragonPS that talks about how the government controls the way we eat.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28seVoeSQpk&feature=g-u-u

We the people should made a difference in this world and fix our food situation.

I would like to give a HUGE thanks to Gamespot and Jody Robinson for the awesome T-shirt that I was able to win! I was gonna get this blog out earlier but I have been swamped in work lately and finally since it's Friday, have the time to put up this quick thank you blog.:D

Also don't forget to check out E3! Live at Gamespot.com

Hey everyone! I just got a beta key for Ghost Recon Future Soldier. I don't have Xbox Live Gold so I thought I would give it out to one lucky Gamespoter!

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https://live.xbox.com/en-US/RedeemToken

Please leave in the comments below that you have redeemed it.

Enjoy!

Did I mention that I have a Dark Soul? It's coming to my PC this Augest!

Very excited to see that Dark Souls is being ported to the PC. I've looked into the game since it came out and thought about getting it on 360, but after hearing we could get a possible PC release I held off and now today is that day!

What about you guys?

Are you excited for this?

Leave your comments and thoughts below. :)

Take care everyone!

Dragon makes a lot of very valid points in the gaming world every Monday and Friday. I enjoy all his videos and what he's got to say. I also love the fact that he includes the community in his videos, by getting everyones views on what they think.

This video makes a lot of valid points in which the gaming world has turned to dust and it's time for us to take a stand and undo what we started.

DRM, DLC, it needs to stop.

(DRM) Companies are spending money on useless and excessive DRM because of piracy.

(DLC) Companies think it's ok to give us a half assed game and expect us to pay for the rest.

This is just my opinon, what do you guys think?

Link to Dragons video down below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMyyOX23FJY&feature=colike

Welcome Back Jeff Gerstmann, it's been awhile since we've seen you around, and would like to formally welcome you back to the Gamespot environment. A lot has changed since you we're terminated back in 2007, but I believe you will figure everything out soon.

Ahh hell let's cut the sentimental crap, HE'S FREAKING BACK!!! With Giant Bomb on his side in the same office space as Gamespot. I am very happy to see him around again and finally glad to see that the past has been put to rest. No hard feelings right? =)

Simple and sweet welcome back blog.

Later folks.

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For the past few weeks I have been enjoying the Mass Effect 3 demo, but there is one thing that annoys me with it.

This is something that Bioware should have learned from past games that failed back on the NES and SNES days.

One button, 3 different actions. I find it really annoying that the spacebar does 3 different things, the spacebar is used for sprinting, diving and taking cover. All that on one key is a problem when in heavy fire (mostly in the multiplayer). I don't know why Bioware didn't split the controls up, making it where sprint is on the shift key instead that is the menu key to look at your weapons and skills, which to be honest is pretty worthless in multiplayer.

I find myself diving instead of sprinting, taking cover instead of diving, and taking cover while trying to sprint out of an area under heavy fire.

In conclusion, why were the controls pasted from the single player, instead of tweaking them for the multiplayer?

Let me know your thoughts.

Take it easy guys.

I recently just placed an order off eBay for a PowerMac G5 Late October 2005 Model!

I am very excited for this! As I was with my purchase of Final Cut Studio 2 almost a year ago. Now instead of using my iBook G4 for working on small SD video edits, I can now harness the power of a much faster and much more powerful Mac.

I decided to go with the PowerMac G5 for several reasons; (here I will list 3 of the most important ones)

#1: Cheaper! (I didn't have the cash, nor did I want to spend $1700+ on a newer Mac)

#2: G5's are still powerful machines and still capable for video editing.

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#3: All the applications I use don't require an Intel Mac, so there would be no point in me spending $1700+ on an Intel Mac (of course there would have been future proofing) but even then, everything I use is still on PowerPC.

Also with the lack of what I was expecting out of Final Cut Pro X, there really is no reason for me to go with an Intel Mac just quite yet.

I've been looking on eBay for a few weeks now, and finally landed on the best deal. Most of the deals I'd see, I'd wait on for a little bit and would be sold afterwords. But finally after days of research, and weeks of waiting, I found the best deal possible.

I had to make sure I wasn't getting the early 2005 models (which had liquid coolent issues) and found out that the late October 2005 models didn't have a liquid cooler, except for the late 2005 Quad Core models.

Here are the specs of my new Mac;

Processor

CPU: PowerPC 970MP "G5"

CPU Speed: 2.0GHz (dual-core)

CPU Cores: 2

FPU: integrated

Bus Speed: 1.0 GHz

Register Width: 64-bit

Data Bus Width: 64-bit

Address Bus Width: 64-bit

ROM: 1 MB ROM + 3 MB toolbox ROM loaded into RAM

RAM Type: PC4200 DDR

Minimum RAM Speed: 533 MHz

Onboard RAM: 0 MB 1gb

RAM slots: 8

Maximum RAM: 16.0 GB

Level 1 Cache: 32 kB data, 64 kB instruction

Level 2 Cache: 1 MB per-core (2 MB total)

Expansion Slots: 2x 4-lane, 2x 8-lane PCI Express

Video

GPU: NVIDIA GeForce 6600 LE with 128MB of GDDR SDRAM

Video Out: DVI

Storage

Hard Drive: 160 GB 7200 RPM

ATA Bus: Serial-ATA

Optical Drive: 32x/24x/20x/16x/16x/4x CD-RW/DVD±RW/DVD+R DL

Input/Output

USB: 4 (2.0)

Firewire: 2

Firewire800: 1

Audio Out: 2x stereo 24 bit mini, Optical S/PDIF

Audio In: stereo 24 bit mini, Optical S/PDIF

Speaker: mono

Networking

Ethernet: 10/100/1000Base-T

Miscellaneous

Power: 700 Watts

Dimensions: 20.1" H x 8.1" W x 18.7" D

Weight: 44.5 lbs.

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While I will be upgrading the ram, since it is really cheap, 1 GB should do for now. The best part about this PowerMac G5 is it came with the power cord, mouse and keyboard which is a rarity.

Well that is all for now, I will be making an unboxing video of when it does arrive, so keep an eye on that on my channel.

Thanks for reading, and have an awesome week Gamespotters!

~Josh

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What has this world come to anymore? Besides all the other major things we've been dealing with *financhal trouble* ect... We've been having even more things going on....I.E hackers.....Last year was the worst of it, a lot of major companies getting hacked like Sony, EA, Valve, Sega, Eidos, ect.... (Add in any I missed since I probably missed some) And also, what is with email spam and cell phone text spam lately? Today and most recently I've been having to deal with a lot more of this crap, My hotmail account was disabled for spamming, obviously someone was using it for terrior and that really pissed me off, making me think, WHY THE HELL DO PEOPLE DO THIS!?!?!?! Same with my cell phone lately, I've been getting a lot of spam text messages. Can't hackers just stop and leave the world alone? I mean come on damn it, they think they are doing the world a favor, but they are really just pissing a lot of us off and causing unnecessary chaos. Hacking is cyber terriorism. In my eyes, if you're a hacker, you're a terroist. You do nothing but cause pain, unnecessary chaos, and you never prove a point. You think you are, but in reality you're just an asshat behind a desk failing to be a member of society.

What do you guys think?

Have you ever had something like this happen to you?

and How have you delt with it?

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